Geneva

The Water Protectors from the Sioux tribe of Standing Rock, along with around 30 activists, participated in an action of civil disobedience. They occupied the Geneva headquarters of Credit Suisse to denounce their financing of fossil energies and notably the 1.4 billion USD invested in #DAPL. They trecked through… »

By Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study Group. On the eve of the August meeting of the 2016 Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) in Geneva. We very much hope that the siren songs advocating meaningless “alternatives” to banning nuclear weapons are not too distracting to delegates and NGOs… »

Back in February, the UN General Assembly authorised the formation of a working group to study legal measures for nuclear disarmament. This week and next week the group convenes again before finishing its work in August. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons is working hard to ensure… »